# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-james-furnivall
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:21:07.895Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-james-furnivall"
name: "Frederick James Furnivall"
slug: "frederick-james-furnivall"
description: "Frederick James Furnivall was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary. He founded a number of learned societies on early English literature and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of The Canterbury Tales. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against injustice."
tagline: "English lexicographer (1825–1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frederick_James_Furnivall.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1825-02-04"
deathDate: "1910-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.36
  historical:           6.820448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "فريديريك چيمس فورنيڤال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frederick James Furnivall"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Furnivall"
    title: "Frederick Furnivall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Furnivall"
    title: "Frederick Furnivall"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Furnivall"
    title: "Frederick Furnivall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridericus_Iacobus_Furnivall"
    title: "Fridericus Iacobus Furnivall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Фёрниволл, Фредерик Джеймс"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump